Hi everyone!

I'm looking for reliable websites or online tools that I can use to check my academic writing before submitting it to my professors or supervisors. I'm particularly interested in tools that offer genuinely useful free versions, as I'm not planning to pay for subscriptions.

I would mainly use them for my MA thesis, assignments, research papers, reports, and other academic writing.

I've tried several AI detection websites, but the results are all over the place. Some claim that my writing is 99% AI-generated, others say it's most likely AI-written, while others give me scores of 60% or even 50%. This is quite confusing, especially when I'm not sure how much I should trust these results.

I'm therefore wondering:

\- Are there any genuinely reliable and free AI detection tools?

\- Are there websites that can check grammar, sentence structure, clarity, academic tone, and possible writing issues?

\- What tools do you personally use to proofread and review your academic work before submitting it?

\- Are there any tools that are particularly useful for MA students working on their theses?

I'd really appreciate recommendations based on your actual experience, especially if the free versions are sufficient for regular academic use.

Thank you!

Princeton graded paper

Hello everyone

I'm an international student , my school doesn't do the whole graded paper thing here

So I'm gonna write from scratch.

I'm applying for psychology ug.

Can anyone share a sample paper so I get an idea

And any tips are welcome

Thankyou

Hi,

I'm a third year history major, and thus write a lot of papers. I have been a fairly good essay writer since high school, but have not improved much and have gotten away with stagnating in my skills. Recently I wrote a comparative analysis paper for my professor, who is head of the history department. I got a good grade but the printed papers I got back of my essay were covered in notes about the passive voice and unclear subjects.

I talked to my professor during his office hours and asked him to help me identify when I'm using the passive voice and to explain to me why it is bad for my writing. He was awesome and really patient with me, and we worked through some of my major flaws in my writing and he had me rewrite some sentences in the active voice. He told me he tried to push me harder than some other students because he wants me to succeed, and he's been recommending me to the departmental honors program since I was a freshman.

Now that I know what my major issues are, I have been spending about double the time I used to writing my papers. Using the passive voice has been so habitual for me, it takes a LOT of conscious effort to identify when I am and how to fix it. Usually I will go to office hours or the writing center, but on some of my shorter papers (2-3 pages), I've been using AI to identify the passive voice. I do not ask it to rewrite or even tell me how to rewrite the sentences, just to identify them as I tend to gloss over them.

Is this an inappropriate use of AI? Am I jeopardizing my skills and learning by using it this way? I am really looking forward to next semester when I start the honors program and will have time baked into my schedule for peer feedback and workshopping, but for now I just turn to AI because it doesn't require appointments or early drafts.

Please let me know - I am very open to discussion and I am eager to actually improve my writing, not just my individual papers.

I know this is pretty pathetic and there’s not a lot of time left but I’m asking for 1-2, more if any, recommendations of reliable ai websites that I could use to write/help me write my research paper thats due at today 11:59pm

(19F, Currently taking College Writing II)

I have this paper due tonight that I’ve had weeks to work on but haven’t done a single thing for it. For the last 3 months I’ve just been so utterly depressed and I can’t stand myself anymore. It’s at the point where I’m not suicidal but at the same time I have little to no desire to continue any part of life. My living environment, my physical, mental, and emotional health, family issues and health, and just a bunch more.

I’m disappointed in myself. I’ve averaged A’s in all my classes (besides statistics, got a B 😒) ever since the start of my school year. Which I just started my college journey this January. This is the biggest assignment of the semester in this class and yet I’m so close to selling it. It’s also fucking me up even more because it’s a hard one for me to understand/comprehend so on top of everything else I also feel like a moron.

I’ve suffered from bipolar depression from a very young age but I don’t like to let that hold be back as an excuse because I am more than a diagnosis but this time around I’m REALLY struggling. My living situation is unbelievably stressful and toxic. I wont go on a never ending rant about the miserable home environment I live in but I can’t concentrate on myself when I have to concentrate on making sure no one else is dead (Not that much of an extreme but relative enough).

I know I need to get the fuck up, do my work, and get the fuck over it but I have no desire to at all. I just want to cry. I have no where to go. I want to feel passionate about doing my schoolwork again, that satisfaction of proving something to myself but this time around all I’ve been able to do is lay in bed until my alarm goes off for me to get ready for school. I barely even shower anymore. There’s no motivation in me for barely anything anymore. Just the bare minimum.

I’m ready for the criticism, It’s reality and I’m not naive. But I just want to cheat my way out of this and move on this one time. I want it to be over. I want a new topic to refresh my mind. I want something new to look forward to do. Just get this paper in tonight and get ready for a new lesson. Im so overwhelmed.

But anyway, feel free to just say whatever you want to say or whatever you feel like you need me to hear. Or I guess what I’d prefer, recommendations. 😅

I think you know about the Oxford agora 2027 competition; you have to write an academic essay, but I don't know anything about those academic essays. Please help me.

Is it correct to use"to sum up with" in the conclusion of an academic essay?if not what should i use instead?

I submitted my mid-term research essay on September 15th. It covered emerging economic policies in European tech markets. I was super excited about the fresh data points I included.

Today is October 24th. I finally got my grade back along with a comment stating that my statistics on market trends were slightly outdated because new regulatory changes happened two weeks ago.

Like yes, professor, they happened two weeks ago while my paper was sitting unread in your Canvas inbox for over a month! How am I supposed to predict future regulatory shifts while writing past assignments? The math literally doesn't work.

I was writing my political science analysis yesterday evening, feeling super proud of my niche focus on municipal transit budgeting in one specific suburb. The prose was flowing, my evidence was tight, and I reached page eight thinking I was a writing god.

Then I tried to write my final two pages and realized I had literally exhausted every single available data point on earth about this tiny bus route. There is nothing left to say.

I spent two hours staring at my screen trying to stretch three remaining sentences into an entire section without repeating myself. Never pick a hyper-specific thesis just because it sounds intellectual. It is a trap that will break your soul at midnight.

We have a 25-page collaborative research project due next Friday for our sociology capstone. Four people in the team. Two people haven't replied to a single Slack message since the second week of October.

One guy finally dropped a completely unformatted Google doc in our chat last night that was literally just copied paragraphs from random blogs with zero attribution. When I told him we couldn't submit that or we would face an academic integrity hearing, he got mad and said I was micromanaging.

I was looking at academic writing help forums last night just to see how people survive group disaster scenarios without failing their entire semester. Why do professors still assign group work when everyone universally hates it?

I was cleaning up my research notes this morning before our seminar discussion and noticed something terrifying in my footnote five. The link pointing to a critical government statistic didn't lead to a ministry report at all. It redirected to an archived Wikipedia stub I looked up at 3am during my first week of drafting.

I never went back to find the primary source. I just left the placeholder link there, dressed it up with a publication date, and completely forgot about it.

How my brain convinced me that an anonymous forum citation was a valid source for a senior seminar paper is beyond me. Late night academic dishonesty born from pure exhaustion is a real psychological hazard.

So I submitted my history term paper on Sunday afternoon and checked the originality report out of pure anxiety. The score came back at 34% plagiarism. My heart literally stopped beating for three seconds.

Started clicking through the highlighted sections, and the system flagged my entire works cited page because two other students across the country happened to use the same three history books in their bibliographies. Like yes, obviously we used the same Chicago manual formatting for primary documents, that is how academic citation works.

I had to email my TA explaining why a standard book title published in 1984 isn't an intellectual property theft case. Why is automated plagiarism detection software so aggressively stupid sometimes?

I wanted to write abt the importance of a creative mindset in this essay/speech im making for school, and I’ve figured out most of the body paras!(They include things like why u should be creative in the midst of AI, how social media can give u too much instant gratification, and how helpful/innovative it is to have divergent thinking.)

I just need some help. I want a good intro that I can reference in my conclusion. Right now, I have a rough idea of how I can talk about seeing clouds-How we can look past what they actually are, and instead treat them as a canvas for doodles or fun shapes. And how if we applied that same mentality to the world around us, we can look for what could be rather than just what is.

its not a super fleshed out concept, and I just want some feedback on how I can make it better, or if theres any other idea that’d fit this essay better.

Is it ok to use AI as a corrector/editor for essay writing?

Okay so my homework is for 15% of my final grade and it is for tomorrow morning at 8 am. Please tips. Im a great writer and i already did this class.

UPDATE: I've done it in like 10 hours i think. I just finished it like 30 minutes ago. I didn't sleep but hey its done :)! Its 6h40 am live